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The Otsego (Oswego) Indians widely used Monarda as a tea to strengthen their strength and treat many diseases.

In the wild, monarda grows in forest clearings in North America, in Mexico. When Columbus discovered America, among many other exotic plants, monarda came to Spain, and from there it spread throughout Europe. It got its name from the name of the doctor Nicholas Monardes, who published a book about strange plants of the New World at the end of the 16th century.

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The Otsego (Oswego) Indians widely used Monarda as a tea to strengthen their strength and treat many diseases.
The plant has a delightful aroma, and bees and butterflies are always circling over its flowers.

For its strong and pleasant smell, Monarda is called Oswego tea (named after the Indian tribe) or bee balm, American or golden lemon balm. It is very popular as a spicy-aromatic and decorative crop in many European countries. Monarda is especially popular in England, where it is called wild bergamot due to its similar aroma.

Andrey Zalomlenkov, pharmacist-phytologist, Orenburg region, Buguruslan:

– I have long ago added one more to the well-known tea-drinking plants – monarda. This plant is not yet as widespread among our gardeners as it deserves. But in vain!

In flower shops you can most often find the seeds of Monarda duplicata, a perennial ornamental, spice and medicinal plant. It is quite tall, up to 1 m, with a tetrahedral stem on which oval leaves with jagged edges are located. Long tubular, two-lipped, red-pink flowers are collected in whorls 3–6 cm in diameter and surrounded by crimson bracts. Also common are varieties of monarda fistula (tubular) and lemon. You can also find hybrid species of monarda on sale, for example Cambridge Scarlett.

Medicinal properties

In addition to its decorative qualities, monarda serves as an excellent medicinal plant. Its essential oil has pronounced antiseptic and antimicrobial effects.

As a medicine in the form of infusions and alcohol tinctures, monarda herbs are used to treat cough, chronic bronchitis and bronchial asthma, sore throat, nausea, flatulence, dyspepsia, pain in the stomach, gall bladder. It is also used as a choleretic and antispasmodic agent, for painful periods, as an anthelmintic. Juice from fresh monarda grass heals infected wounds and ulcers well.

Methods of application

Infusion: 1 tbsp. l. dry leaves and flowers, pour 300 g of boiling water and leave covered for half an hour, strain. You can add 1–2 tsp to the finished, slightly cooled infusion. honey Drink the infusion in small doses, in 3-4 doses, 20 minutes before meals.

Tincture: fill a glass jar 1/3 with dry monarda leaves and top up with vodka. Leave in a warm, dark place for 2 weeks, filter. Take 1 tsp. with 1/4 glass of water for stomach pain, poor sleep, severe stress, tachycardia, bronchitis.